Meaning

2 senses
  1. (countable, uncountable)A disemboweling; the removal of viscera.

    The evisceration of the animal was accomplished with a single blow of the knife.

    Ausweiden

    потрошениеpotrošenije

  2. (broadly, countable, figuratively, uncountable)A vigorous verbal or physical assault.

    The critic delivered another evisceration of the latest movie.

    Verriss

More definitions
  • altering something (as a legislative act or a statement) in such a manner as to reduce its value
  • surgical removal of an organ (or the contents of an organ) from a patient
  • the act of removing the bowels or viscera; the act of cutting so as to cause the viscera to protrude

Translations

3 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
A disemboweling:
Deutsch
By meaning 2
A disemboweling:
A vigorous verbal assault:

Forms

plural: eviscerations
Singularevisceration
Pluraleviscerations

regular

Synonyms

2 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • the act of removing the bowels or viscera; the act of cutting so as to cause the viscera to protrude:disembowelment

Word family

2 related words

See also

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